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9781408182680 English 1408182688 "Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined" spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist. Starting with "A Doll's House," Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations from 1879, Toby Zinman explores what made the play so controversial and shocking in its day before tracing how later reimaginings have reworked Ibsen's original. The spine of plays then includes such landmark works as Strindberg's "Miss Julie," Oscar Wilde's comic "The Importance of Being Earnest," Chekhov's "Three Sisters" and "Uncle Vanya," Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," the Rattigan centenary revivals, Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," ultimately arriving at Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." Taking each modern play as the starting point, Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings by subsequent playwrights and artists including prominent directors and their controversial productions as well as acknowledging reworkings in film, opera and ballet.Through the course of this groundbreaking study we discover not only how theatrical styles have changed but how society's attitude towards politics, religion, money, gender, sexuality and race have radically altered over the course of the century. In turn "Replay" reveals how theatre can serve as both a reflection of our times and a provocation to them.", In this study spanning more than a century of great theatre, Toby Zinman explores how iconic modern plays, from Büchner's Woyzeck on, have been adopted and versioned by contemporary writers to reflect or dissect the zeitgeist. Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined invites the reader into a lively dialogue between the original works and those created by later artists. Taking each classic modern Play-from Ibsen to Beckett-as a starting point, Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings by subsequent playwrights, directors and artists, as well as acknowledging adaptations in film, opera, and ballet. Part One opens with A Doll's House, Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations, as representative of plays engaged in moral struggle, all believing that the world can be improved. She includes such landmark works as Miller's Death of a Salesman, Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children, Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and the Rattigan centenary revivals. Part Two takes up plays resigned to the human condition; it opens with Strindberg's Miss Julie, and includes Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Checkhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, before ultimately arriving at Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Book jacket.
9781408182680 English 1408182688 "Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined" spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist. Starting with "A Doll's House," Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations from 1879, Toby Zinman explores what made the play so controversial and shocking in its day before tracing how later reimaginings have reworked Ibsen's original. The spine of plays then includes such landmark works as Strindberg's "Miss Julie," Oscar Wilde's comic "The Importance of Being Earnest," Chekhov's "Three Sisters" and "Uncle Vanya," Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," the Rattigan centenary revivals, Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," ultimately arriving at Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." Taking each modern play as the starting point, Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings by subsequent playwrights and artists including prominent directors and their controversial productions as well as acknowledging reworkings in film, opera and ballet.Through the course of this groundbreaking study we discover not only how theatrical styles have changed but how society's attitude towards politics, religion, money, gender, sexuality and race have radically altered over the course of the century. In turn "Replay" reveals how theatre can serve as both a reflection of our times and a provocation to them.", In this study spanning more than a century of great theatre, Toby Zinman explores how iconic modern plays, from Büchner's Woyzeck on, have been adopted and versioned by contemporary writers to reflect or dissect the zeitgeist. Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined invites the reader into a lively dialogue between the original works and those created by later artists. Taking each classic modern Play-from Ibsen to Beckett-as a starting point, Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings by subsequent playwrights, directors and artists, as well as acknowledging adaptations in film, opera, and ballet. Part One opens with A Doll's House, Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations, as representative of plays engaged in moral struggle, all believing that the world can be improved. She includes such landmark works as Miller's Death of a Salesman, Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children, Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and the Rattigan centenary revivals. Part Two takes up plays resigned to the human condition; it opens with Strindberg's Miss Julie, and includes Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Checkhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, before ultimately arriving at Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Book jacket.